Ninety-two in the Shade

by Thomas McGuane

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • A stunning novel about a deadly rivalry in Key West from the acclaimed author of Cloudbursts. McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose.
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide.

"Thomas McGuane makes the page, the paragraph, the sentence itself a record of continuous imaginative activity.... He is an important as well as a brilliant novelist." —The New York Times Book Review
  • ISBN10 0679752897
  • ISBN13 9780679752899
  • Publish Date 30 May 1995 (first published 1 January 1973)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 July 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books